Tone Quotes

Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail.

The more veiled becomes the outside world, steadily losing in colour, tone and passions, the more urgently the inner world calls us

Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

Say the first word. Set the tone for the conversation. Be poised, prepared, and ready to say the first word in any debate or meeting.

From black and white to a sepia tone, some dreams come with a tint or in monochrome

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

The tone is in your fingers, not in your amp or effects.

If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

The trick is to smoke a cigarette to calm your nerves and then take a big swig of strong liquor to tone your muscles.

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it's enchanting, it's delicious, and I hope it will please you.

Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word “clean” takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don’t be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy.

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.

A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket. 'You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?' she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, 'I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have kill you too.

Life is the expression of tone. In that sentence is the basic principle of Chiropractic.

Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

I really deplore the tone of his campaign and the inflammatory rhetoric that he is using to divide people. I don`t know that Donald Trump has any boundaries at all.

"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."

...Someone speaks in soft tones to me and says I am psychotic, but it's going to be all right. I put on my hat, unperturbed, and ask for some crayons.

With a tone so rich, I would never be afraid of the dark. Steinway is the only and the best!

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

Define what your brand stands for, its core values and tone of voice, and then communicate consistently in those terms.

I've said I want the meanest, toughest SOB I can find to protect America. And so that's why Trump's tone doesn't bother me.

You have to know the story that you're telling, and you have to know the tone in which the story is being told.

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.

There are only twelve tones and they need to be treated carefully.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

I want to paint a canvasthat will be nothing but harmonious tone.

People say, 'Are you afraid? Are you scared for your life?' and I tell them: If I choose today to tone it down, if I choose today to shut up, tomorrow me, you, and all of us will be forced to.

Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.

Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them...For as long as you are green, you can grow.

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you.

At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.

A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres.

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems.

I'm always surprised to hear or read my work described, "In angry tones, she says." No! In truthful tones! Does truth have a tone? I don't know.

Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.